{"id":25325,"date":"2023-01-19T05:58:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T05:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25325"},"modified":"2023-01-19T05:58:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T05:58:09","slug":"the-seagull-nebula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25325","title":{"rendered":"The Seagull Nebula"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img src='https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/image\/2301\/crtastro_0172_1097p.jpg' style='max-width:600px;' \/><\/p>\n<div>A broad expanse of glowing gas and dust presents a bird-like visage to astronomers from planet Earth, suggesting its popular moniker &#8211; The Seagull Nebula. Using narrowband image data, this 3-panel mosaic of the cosmic bird covers a 2.5 degree swath across the plane of the Milky Way, near the direction of Sirius, alpha star of the constellation Canis Major. Likely part of a larger shell structure swept up by successive supernova explosions, the broad Seagull Nebula is cataloged as Sh2-296 and IC 2177. The prominent bluish arc below and right of center is a bow shock from runaway star FN Canis Majoris. This complex of gas and dust clouds with other stars of the Canis Majoris OB1 association spans over 200 light-years at the Seagull Nebula&#8217;s estimated 3,800 light-year distance. via NASA <a href=\"https:\/\/apod.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap230119.html\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A broad expanse of glowing gas and dust presents a bird-like visage to astronomers from planet Earth, suggesting its popular moniker &#8211; The Seagull Nebula. Using narrowband image data, this <a href=\"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/?p=25325\" class=\"more-link\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["entry","author-admin","post-25325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-whatsup","tag-ifttt","tag-nasa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25326,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25325\/revisions\/25326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/finn-family.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}